ChiefHophead
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It is hot this week in Columbus, Ohio. I need to brew a beer for and event a little over a month away, so I was thinking APA. I need to brew today, but it is WAY too hot for me to want to spend a hours outside mashing, sparging, and boiling.
I was thinking about doing an extract beer. I have read that late addition of the extract improves hop utilization and reduces kettle color pickup. I have also been wanting to try Hop Bursting. Instead of a 60min bittering addition, I would do a large late charge at 15min left in the boil and then again at flameout. All the bitterness would come from those additions.
With that in mind, why would I boil plain water for 45 minute before the 15min hops and the 5min DME? Couldnt I just fill my kettle with water, soak my steeping grains till it reached 170deg, reach a boil and throw in my 15min addition, wait 10 min, dump in the DME and kill the heat 5 minutes later. Can anyone see any issues with my 15minute boil? So long as there is enough hops to bitter it in 15, everything else make sense, right?
I was thinking about doing an extract beer. I have read that late addition of the extract improves hop utilization and reduces kettle color pickup. I have also been wanting to try Hop Bursting. Instead of a 60min bittering addition, I would do a large late charge at 15min left in the boil and then again at flameout. All the bitterness would come from those additions.
With that in mind, why would I boil plain water for 45 minute before the 15min hops and the 5min DME? Couldnt I just fill my kettle with water, soak my steeping grains till it reached 170deg, reach a boil and throw in my 15min addition, wait 10 min, dump in the DME and kill the heat 5 minutes later. Can anyone see any issues with my 15minute boil? So long as there is enough hops to bitter it in 15, everything else make sense, right?